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AUDIO: Mr. Hahn - Tasty Gas Station Breaks From The Orient

Today we are featuring for download, a very unique collection of tracks for your listening pleasure from a Joe Hahn vinyl called "Tasty Gas Station Breaks From The Orient". Sent to us by an anonymous source, little is known about these tracks except that they appear to be from around circa 1999-2000, and were ripped from a vinyl Joe Hahn created himself to use during concert performances around the Hybrid Theory era. What makes these tracks special is the fact that many famous samples from Linkin Park's history ("I'd like to introduce", "and you do it like this", as well as the speech from Step Up, and the original female intro to "It's Going Down") are here in their unaltered form without any background tracks or musical interference at all. Also featured are certain instrumental breaks and clips from Hybrid Theory, making these tracks invaluable for anybody planning to remix Linkin Park's music.

From our understanding, these tracks have been circulating several file sites before our upload (infact our very source found it through a multiupload link that was given to them by someone else), so we weren't sure of their origin, and at first we thought that these might have been well known. However; after some research we did not see these posted on any major fan sites we felt we'd upload them to allow everyone to have a chance to listen. Our source tells me that Ivan Romanov owns the vinyl, so in the case he is responsible for these rips, special thanks go out to him for the original multiupload link if he was the one who uploaded it. Also, since it is uncertain if Joe Hahn ever wanted these to be released, if Joe or LP Management has an issue with these being up, please have us contacted and we'll remove them immediately!

To save initial server load, we are going to post the original multiupload link that these tracks were discovered on in the first place, an actual lpassociation.com download link will be made available later. Also, keep in mind that megaupload's link will no longer work due to the recent shutdown.

Update: This vinyl (or one similar) was used during Linkin Park's performance at Rock Am Ring 2001. See screencap below:

Update 2: LPA member Dr. Octagonapus has posted a very thorough track by track analysis of each sample, and some of these samples' origins. Read HERE and feel free to add to it if you wish.

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Yeah direct download works. There's some popups when you click there but it's not an ad attack and its free. We'll have our own AD-FREE download link once the demand for these dies down. Just right now we're not going to get our server screwed over.

And you're welcome!

Originally Posted by MKH

Right click just saves a URL .-.

Our bad, please ignore that. That was from when we were originally planning to host it ourselves.

Yeah direct download works. There's some popups when you click there but it's not an ad attack and its free. We'll have our own AD-FREE download link once the demand for these dies down. Just right now we're not going to get our server screwed over.

kind of neat to have all of these and get in the mind of joe hahn a little bit. I wonder how many of these 'sounds' will make it in to future tracks or how many of these were used in songs we've never heard. there are some cool breakdowns that would have made great additions to a new unreleased track.

Very interesting, a little analysis(if it's not a problem):
Track 1: Samples from Crawling
Track 2: Samples from By Myself(Demo?), In The End, and from Cure For The Itch
Track 4: Guitar from Carousel
Track 5: Something like one of the extended intro for Papercut
Track 6: Ending sample from Esaśl
Track 7: Samples from Forgotten(extended intro)
Track 8: Guitar from Points of Authority
Track 12: Samples from Dedicated and from Step Up
Track 15: Intro from In The End

Very interesting, a little analysis(if it's not a problem):
Track 1: Samples from Crawling
Track 2: Samples from By Myself(Demo?), In The End, and from Cure For The Itch
Track 4: Guitar from Carousel
Track 5: Something like one of the extended intro for Papercut
Track 6: Ending sample from Esaśl
Track 7: Samples from Forgotten(extended intro)
Track 8: Guitar from Points of Authority
Track 12: Samples from Dedicated and from Step Up
Track 15: Intro from In The End